News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S. Troops Shortly Detain Sunni Religious Leader
US raid in Iraq sparks outrage
U.S. drafts plan for steep troop cuts in Iraq: NYT - Video
Blasts precede Iraq healing plans
Returning Guardsmen worry on Iraq's future

Operation Enduring Freedom
82 Afghan Militants Killed

Homeland Security / War on Terror
FBI: Sears Tower Plot 'Aspirational, Not Operational'
US sends home 14 Saudis from Guantanamo
Father: Plot suspect not in 'right mind' (Don't know about you, but I didn't need anyone to tell me this...)
Somali group chief accused of Qaida ties

Other Military News
British army demotes mascot goat, Billy

Immigration / Border Control
Other states should step up on border plan: Calif
US debates deportation of skilled illegal workers
Critics decry immigrant detention push

NSA / CIA
Court: Defendant Can't Use NSA Wiretapping Records
Cheney defends search of bank records

Worldwide Wackos
Germany to Iran: Stop enrichment and we can talk
Asia watches U.S. in Korea missile impasse

Homegrown Moonbats
Abbas Nixes Hamas Meeting- Israel Arrests 2 in Gaza
Dean: Troops in Iraq should come home

Politics / Government
Abramoff E-Mails Connect Money, Access to Officials
Bush presses for more power to rein in spending

In the Courts
High court saves some best cases for last
No Justice for All
New Orleans courts struggle
FOXNews.com Crime Center

Oddities
Mascot demoted for acting the goat on parade
Baseball fans can show support in afterlife
Possibly drunk pelican hits windshield

Other News of Note
California Univ. Chancellor Dies After Apparent Jump
Caver's remains removed after 41 years

Fox News
6.2 Quake Shakes Indonesia
Reno Shooting Suspect Back in U.S. After Surrendering
Mother of Slain JonBenet Ramsey Dead of Cancer at 49
Aaron Spelling Dead at 83
Andre Agassi to Retire
Tortoise Dies at 176
Hundreds Brawl at the World Cup
Video: Germany, Argentina Advance
FULL WORLD CUP COVERAGE
Broken Telescope

Reuters: Top News
Russia falls short of G8 standards: UK think-tank
Scientists unearth key to dodo's past
Nokia opens first U.S. flagship store with fanfare
Qualcomm says Nokia pullout will not hurt CDMA
Olmert wins friends abroad by not being Sharon
Women should be given more birth choices
New HIV drug for resistant patients
Nervous Kidman prepares for own special love story
SEC effort to oversee hedge funds cracked
Anadarko to buy Kerr-McGee, Western Gas for $21 bln
Virgin tip off sparked BA cartel inquiry: source
US OKs generic versions of Merck cholesterol drug
PCCW bidders angle to overcome China opposition
Fed's rate move in focus for stocks
Oracle rises on higher profit, buyback plan
Neurocrine stock plummets after Pfizer pulls plug
Hospital chain Health Management warns on earnings
Six Flags stock, bonds fall on earnings warning
Alternatives to options
On the Radar: Mity Enterprises
Reuters Select Stock Screens

AP World News
Blaze blocks exit for some at Grand Canyon
Richardson splits from Backstreet Boys
Wild goal lifts Argentina over Mexico
NASA wrestling with same old problems
Spelling left indelible stamp on TV
Spelling was a master of television
NASA hopes to spur commercial space growth
Utah tribe divided over nuclear waste

CENTCOM: News Releases
COALITION FORCES DETAIN A SENIOR AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ NETWORK MEMBER

COALITION FORCES DETAINED NINE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS

COALITION FORCES KILL FOUR FOREIGN TERRORISTS

TWO CACHES DISCOVERED IN KIRKUK

KIDNAPPED VICTIM FREED; NINE TERROR SUSPECTS CATURED BY IRAQI SECURITY FORCES

EXTREMISTS ATTACK GARDEZ SCHOOL

COALITION FORCES DESTROY EXTREMIST BUNKER

REGIONAL SECURITY CONFERENCE HELD IN JALABAD

Department of Defense
ON THE GROUND
Medics Always On Call, Ready to Provide Aid - Story
Marines Nab Insurgents, Train Iraqi Troops - Story
New Fire Department Opens in Husseniya - Story

IN IRAQ
Marines, Insurgents Clash in Recent Firefights
Airmen Train Soldiers for Protection Mission
Iraqis Take Lead in Northern Baghdad Region

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Soldiers Train as Medics - Story
Agriculture Day in Afghan Province Brings Hope
C-130 Crew Evacuates Wounded Afghan Girl
Uruzgan Governor Visits District

IN KUWAIT
'Operation Thin Mint' Delivers Cookies to Troops

DefendAmerica Week in Review
Sunday - Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (PDF)
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Weekly Reconstruction Report (PDF)
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualties - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1630 - The fork makes its way to American dining tables, courtesy of Governor Winthrop
1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1798 - The U.S. passes the "Alien Act," giving the President the power to deport dangerous non-citizens.
1862 - The Seven Days begin with fighting at Oak Grove.
1864 - Federals begin digging tunnels under Rebel lines at Petersburg.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and the Carolinas are readmitted to the U.S.
1876 - Custer and hsi 7th Cavalry troops are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at Little Big Horn.
1929 - Pres Hoover authorizes the building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam).
1942 - The British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen, Germany.
1950 - The Israeli airline El Al begins service; North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1956 - The Andrea Doria and the Stockholm collide, killing 51.
1961 - Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq, a position Kuwait disagrees with.
1962 - The Supreme Court rules school prayer is unconstitutional.
1966 - The first Soviet weather satellite, Kosmos 122, is launched.
1972 - Bernice Gera becomes pro baseball's first female umpire.
1973 - John Dean begins testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
1975 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1977 - Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning - for the seventh time.
1981 - The Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration as constitutional.
1982 - Sec of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns.
1991 - Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

Birthdays
1864 - Walther Hermann Nernst, physical chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1886 - General Henry (Hap) Arnold, US Army Air Force commanding general, WW II
1903 - George Orwell, satirist/author (Animal Farm, 1984)
1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Passings
1212 - Simon de Montfort, Crusade leader
1906 - Architect Stanford White, shot by jealous husband atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed)
1959 - Charles Starkwether, executed

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Mongilardi, Peter, Jr., USN (NJ); A4C shot down, remains returned 1994

1966
Marik, Charles W., USN (MO); A6A shot down, presumed KIA

1972
Shumway, Geofrey Raymond, USN (NY); A7E shot down